TY  - BOOK
AU  - Umar,Muhammad
TI  - Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule 
T2  - Islam in Africa
SN  - 9789047416630
AV  - BP64.N6 U53 2006
U1  - 305.552 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Nigeria, Northern
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Africa
KW  - Administration
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - To 1960
N1  - Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, Evanston, 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This volume analyzes discourses on British colonialism constructed by Muslims of northern Nigeria c. 1903-1945. It departs from the conventional wisdom on British colonial policy of indirect rule and its "benign" consequences. Conceptualizing colonialism not simply as a unilateral imposition but as a dynamic encounter between colonizer and colonized, the book shifts the focus away from the overwhelming impact of the former and devastating consequences on the later, thereby revealing indeterminate outcomes and unintended consequences of both the actions of the colonizer and the reactions of the colonized. The volume analyzes legal treatises, poems, and novels, connecting authors to their intellectual backgrounds, relations to colonial regime and intended audiences, leading to better understanding of the ideas that informed Muslims' intellectual and practical responses to colonialism
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047416630
ER  -